Asaki said:
I might be way off the mark here, or you might already have considered this, but is there a way you could do like they do with HDR photography?Get one capture very bright, one very dark, one in the middle and layer them together?
I know you said you're already capturing at different settings, I didn't know if that's what you meant or not. But then again, trying to get them all to line up perfectly would probably take too long to do =/

It would be fun to try, but I fear there would be too many slight variations in the centering of each frame, such that it would just make it look less sharp.

I actually have tried this technique with old video (I do 1/2" EIAJ as well), and while the results were promising, I ultimately was dissatisfied with the loss of sharpness.

So, anyone care to take the frames I posted, and do some investigation into the appropriate percentage of horizontal stretch to make the material match the ratio of the original movie? I haven't even found a definitive definition of the horizontal percentage stretch for 16mm scope projection. And I wonder if it wouldn't just be more accurate to eyeball it against some GOUT frames. I can do it of course, but some of you might do a more exact job than me.